[2] He was shunned in post-war Germany because of his family name, and died without any public recognition, receiving scant attention for his humanitarian efforts until decades after his death.

[5] The Göring family lived with their children's aristocratic godfather of Jewish heritage, Hermann Epenstein Ritter von Mauternburg, in his Veldenstein and Mauterndorf castles.

[10] Göring seemed to have acquired his godfather's character as a bon vivant and looked set to lead an "unremarkable life" as a filmmaker, until the Nazis came to power in 1933.

Unlike his elder brother Hermann, a leading party member, Albert Göring despised Nazism and the brutality involved.

The SS officer in charge inspected his identification, and ordered the group's scrubbing activity to stop after realizing he could be held responsible for allowing Hermann Göring's brother to be publicly humiliated.

[12] Göring intensified his anti-Nazi activity when he was made export director at the Škoda Works in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (occupied part of the former Czechoslovakia).

In 2010, Edda Göring, the daughter of Hermann, said of her uncle Albert in The Guardian: He could certainly help people in need himself financially and with his personal influence, but, as soon as it was necessary to involve higher authority or officials, then he had to have the support of my father, which he did get.

One exception was a short article in German weekly magazine aktuell by writer Ernst Neubach in the early 1960s, when Göring was still alive.

At the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century, Albert Göring and his work became the subject of several books and documentaries, in turn triggering a larger number of new publications.

A review of the 2009 book in The Jewish Chronicle concluded with a call for Albert Göring to be honoured at the Yad Vashem memorial;[14] however, Yad Vashem subsequently announced that Göring would not be listed as Righteous Among the Nations, stating that although "[t]here are indications that Albert Goering had a positive attitude to Jews and that he helped some people," there is not "sufficient proof, i.e., primary sources, showing that he took extraordinary risks to save Jews from danger of deportation and death.

[16] Roughly a decade later, William Hastings Burke produced a documentary based on his book, and in 2014 Véronique Lhorme's Le Dossier Albert Göring was broadcast on French TV.